- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:15:21 +0200
For HTML elements in HTML documents, why is Element.localName uppercased for tag names and lowercased for attribute names? I wouldn't expect it to, and it makes it harder to write scripts that work for both HTML and XHTML. For example, if you want a script to work in both legacy HTML UAs and HTML5 UAs as well as in XHTML, you may want to do something like if ((elm.tagName == "A" && !elm.namespaceURI) || (elm.localName == "a" && elm.namespaceURI == "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml")) to check that a given element is an HTML "a" element. -- Simon Pieters
Received on Friday, 29 June 2007 09:15:21 UTC